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The director of a documentary about Kings Of Leon has said he doesn’t regret filming Caleb Followill getting apparently drunk and stoned.

The singer’s bleary-eyed confessional appears in Talihina Sky, a film about the crisis-hit band which premiered earlier this year and is due to be released on DVD on October 31.

A brief excerpt of the interview appears at around 1:35 in the trailer for the film, which you can see above.

Filmmaker Stephen Mitchell told MTV.com that the clips, which were filmed during the making of the four-piece’s 2008 album ‘Only By The Night’, are “hard for [him] to watch” in light of Followill‘s recent meltdown.

Asked whether he regretted keeping the footage in the film, he commented:

No, and for the record, I might have been more drunk and stoned than Caleb during that interview. I think it was an amazing conversation, and I think there’s a lot of the film that, looking back, [I] have regrets about showing this or doing that. We made our decisions a while ago and we’re sticking to them and living with them.

Mitchell added that he believes Kings Of Leon probably find it difficult to watch the footage too, remarking:

I guess the only thing I can say is we put the honesty out there and hopefully people at least respect the boys for not bullshitting them.